About One57

One57 is the first in a series of supertall residential towers rising along 57th street in Manhattan. These towers take advantage of views of Central Park by securing air rights from neighboring buildings. The building has a design of dark and light glass on the facade to create vertical stripes to manipulate sunlight and maximizing views.

Second CTBUH Damping Research Meeting
26 Oct 2015, New York City
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Event
Report
Nearly 30 industry professionals and academic experts were in attendance at the second meeting for the CTBUH research project on damping.

The Current State of Slender Buildings in NYC
30 Jul 2015, New York City
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SHoP Architects welcomed a group of architects and engineers for a lively discussion and exchange of ideas about slender buildings.

CTBUH Releases Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2014
Dec 2014
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CTBUH Journal Paper
An All-Time Record 97 Buildings of 200 Meters or Higher Completed in 2014 and 2014 showed further shifts towards Asia, and also surprising developments in building functions and structural materials.

Papers Related to One57

Papers Related to One57

Debating Tall: Luxury Superslims: Bane or Boon?
26 Oct 2015 –
CTBUH Journal, 2015 Issue IV; Michael Stern, JDS Development Group; Mary Rowe, Municipal Art Society of New York
The recent prevalence of extra-thin and tall “superslim” towers in New York, which mostly contain luxury apartments, has been controversial. We felt it was time to air…

The Logic of Luxury 2.0
26 Oct 2015 –
Global Interchanges: Resurgence of the Skyscraper City; Carol Willis, The Skyscraper Museum
This paper recaps the “what and why” of the super-slender type and gives an abbreviated illustration of the mechanics of the “logic of luxury.” The second part of the…